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What Will Steve Jobs Say To Barack Obama At Today’s Meeting?
Steve Jobs last had a chat with President Barack Obama in October 2010 when they discussed ‘technology innovation and the US economy’ amongst other things. Life has moved on quite a bit since then, although the mythical white iPhone 4 still has not appeared, as many thought it would following the previous meeting. Gizmodo have even reported that Jobs only has 6 weeks left to live having reportedly been spotted at the Stanford Cancer Clinic in Palo Alto, Calif and looking ‘increasingly emaciated’, will they discuss his health and the future? Jobs won’t be alone with the president, Eric Schmidt, the present Chief Executive from Google will be there as…
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‘Steve Jobs – The American Dream’ By Obama
US president Barack Obama cited Apple boss Steve Jobs as an example of the ‘American dream’, saying that the incentive to be rich is a ‘good thing’ and part of the free market. “We celebrate somebody like a Steve Jobs, who has created two or three different revolutionary products. We expect that person to be rich, and that’s a good thing. We want that incentive. That’s part of the free market.”according to PCR today. Man Of The Year Meanwhile The Financial Times has given Steve Jobs their Man of the Year accolade. In particular citing the iPad as marking the moment when the ‘rebound’ in Apple’s fortunes “was complete”. The…